Hungarian Socialist Party

Hungary’s Sundry Opposition To Unite Against Common Enemy

Published by Balkan Insight on Fri, 08/14/2020 - 17:41

The presidents of the opposition parties - including the liberal Democratic Coalition, the Socialists, the young emerging Momentum, the leftist-liberal Dialogue, the greenish LMP and the former radical rightist Jobbik - have agreed to nominate only one candidate in each of the 106 individual constituencies.

Social Democracy: What’s Left in Central Europe?

Published by Balkan Insight on Thu, 03/26/2020 - 06:26

SMER-SD gave way to a four-party, mostly right-wing coalition led by populist Ivo Matovic's OLANO, which more than doubled its vote from 11 per cent to 25 per cent — well ahead of SMER-SD's 18 per cent — with a vague programme almost entirely devoted to dismantling what Matovic claims is a system of corruption built by former premier Robert Fico.